Comedy Bar tries out all the hare-brained ideas it didn't have time for in 2009 at the Festival of New Formats.

From our "opposite sides of the same coin" department comes an accounting of the city's best and worst comedy exports. Like any decade, the 2000s saw a lot of comics make, or attempt, the jump to the big time in the US, but few stand in such good... (1)

Time again for an admittedly haphazard recounting of the highs, lows and miscellany of the local laugh trade — from brushes with a gone-to-seed former great to a cautionary note for all hecklers everywhere. Comedy columnist Sean Davidson looks back at the...

While the Second City franchise will celebrate its 50th anniversary this week with a host of shows in Chicago, there’s little hubbub at our own Second City, which celebrates its 36th anniversary this year.
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Producer Ian Atlas, a recent arrival already known as a prolific and inventive producer, has a thing for themed shows. The recent Spite Club and Bedroom Antics shows are also his doing, as was last summer's Comedy Brawl. But he's struck a chord with...

Impatient Theatre Company's new show, Who Do You Think You Are?!, follows a clutch of upscale box-dwellers — head writer and cast member Kirsten Gallagher shuns the now-dated label "yuppie" — through a haze of inquisitional board interviews, yoga...